I don’t know how old you are, and I doubt I could tell by looking at you. I’m certainly no whiz when it comes to figuring out who’s had Botox injections, if the bulge around […]

I’ve never been one for social networking. When Friendster first came along, I mocked my friends who got into it and then proceeded to tell me–and everyone else in the office–about each new virtual….

Here’s an underlying truth: all too often, we don’t own our possessions, they own us. I remember my early days as an apartment dweller, when I rented (or even more impermanently, subleased). Decora…

How and why do people become involved in philanthropy? Historically, that grand level of generosity arose out of a sense of noblesse oblige (but let’s not forget the tax breaks that accompany such gif…

I imagine the arctic stark white, its visual monotony broken only by the black nubbin of a polar bear’s nose or the flap of an explorer’s flag. But night in the north can light up […]

Must necklines and waistlines plunge so perilously every time the mercury rises? As the woman we had chosen to join us reached for the salt, a lesser mortal might have said “Waiter! There’s a b..

“Tell me,” he whispers softly against my neck. “Tell me your fantasies.” Cuddling against him, I close my eyes, inhaling the scent of us that clung to his skin–the light fragrance o….

I groaned as my alarm went off, drawing me from my delightful dreams. Rolling over, I stared blurry-eyed at the annoying machine. Its beady red dials showed the time as 9:00 am, but I knew, […]

We just had an argument–a fierce one. He said he needed to cool down, as he undressed himself slowly in the bedroom. Though I was angry, I couldn’t help catching the sight of his muscles […]

I leaned against the counter and pursed my lips. Tracing the pouting lines with a layer of gloss, I pressed them together and leaned back. Finally satisfied at my appearance, I headed towards the ro…

I leaned back against the tub, letting the light vapors of the bubble bath sooth my frazzled nerves. Traveling to visit him was always an interesting and erotic…

He sat still with a Cheshire cat grin on his face. How could he not, after all–any self respecting, hot-blooded heterosexual male would, given the right circumstances. These would defin…

We were playing a game. I asked him how he liked the kiss. He said, “You’re kidding, right?” I said nope, and that I’d like an answer. Confused, he asked, “but what was the question?

Some of us were only conceived. Some of us were never born–in a private ocean for days or weeks, with limbs agrow and seen holding our poor head, growing from chest, arms. Some of us, […]

I do not believe there is any such thing as an unselfish interest in the welfare of others commonly called “altruism.” I do believe that people behave in ways that most humans would define as….

I used to count my lovers when trying to fall asleep; now I employ this technique NOT to fall asleep, with growing frequency at dinners where I am caught with people who speak only of […]